Slow performance Indesign 17.3 PDF remarks

[wmodist]

Hey I've been working an a document of 122 pages for a while now. For some reason it always gets slower. At first I thought working on a google drive was the problem, but now it seems to be the pdf remarks. Corrections have been ongoing, and although I remove all remarks everytime they're done, I have the impression they are dragging on somewhere. Does anyone have the same problem? Any solutions?

Macbookpro 2019, OS 12.4, AMD Radeon pro 5500m, 4GB

[Mike Witherell]

Have you experimented with these many ideas?

Speed Up InDesign

[wmodist]

Yes, and they all have an effect. But these are minor compared to the effect of not using the PDF remarks…

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Save the publication as an IDML document, rename it (incrementally) and open it up again in InDesign, that process will delete all the crud that builds up in a document over time and that can lead to it slowing down or even introduce corruption.

If you only have 4GB of RAM, that is inadequate you need at least 16GB.

[wmodist]

Thx, I'll try that once. I have 16 GB ram, the 4GB is for my videocard

[wmodist]

It works! I hope Adobe is reading these posts as well. It might be a nice feature to have an 'erase cache' on documents. Probably I'm not the only one having the bad habit of reusing old layouts…